72 Tournament 3 (1/2)
The twenty winners of the group stage made their way up to the stage.
Ivan knew three of them, while the others were new faces. Unsurprisingly Miss Tang was one of the winners as well as the other two's he met during his first dungeon run. Besides them there was the woman from his group.
From Miss Tang groups the second place was an muscular man, which hadn't even shown his pet yet, since his fights were easy and he had forfeited the fight against Miss. Tang. Besides these two the other winners had to show their strengths during the group stage. At least Ivan thought so.
”Great, now lets begin with the winner of group one.”, the head referee announced.
The winner of group one which was a skinny young man, that used his superb archer skills as well as his surprisingly tanky pig pet, to win his fights. After the announcement he stepped forward and pulled out a slip of paper with the slot he would get.
He started of on the lower left bracket.
After that the drawing proceeded until finally everyone had his slot in the bracket. Ivan didn't have much luck since he would meet Miss Tang in the second fight. As such he didn't have much hope in making the top five.
”Then lets get the first fight started. The contestants are Ivan Hope and Dennis Lerou.”, the referee announced the first fight. ”Everyone else, please leave the stage.”
He then waited for the rest of the contestants to leave the stage, so that only the two fighters were left on stage.
”Are the both of you ready?”, he then asked Ivan and the other young man Dennis. After both of them nodded he then announced, ”Let the fight begin.”
Once again Ivan summoned his pet Vlada, but he knew that this wasn't enough to win against his opponent.
As most of the contestants his opponent used his pet as the main force, while he stood back and supported it. He was a caster, which used fire balls to interrupt his opponents rhythm and enable his pet bear to do damage to him.
Even though Vlada would be able to fight on equal footing or even surpass the bear, she would be unable to do so if the young man fired fireballs at her. As such it was necessary for Ivan to attack too.
Something he had realized during the duration of the tournament was, that his fighting style seemed to be quite unusual. As such he hoped to surprise his opponent. Of course this would only work during the first fight, since he hadn't shown his fighting style before.
His opponent pulled out his staff and got ready to cast his fireball spells, while his bear rushed towards Vlada.
While Vlada pounced towards the incoming bear, Ivan didn't hesitate to sprint towards his opponent.
Seeing him coming the young man became flustered, since he hadn't expected him to rush towards him. Sadly he wasn't interrupted, but still finished his chant to fire a fireball towards Ivan.
Ivan quickly pulled out his sword while creating a sturdy but small fire shield in the trajectory of the incoming fireball. Even though fire shields weren't really the best way, to block fireballs his strengthened shield was up to the tast, and the incoming attack vanished harmlessly.